Blog Post 4

They Say I Say 20 Time Project                                               Cassie Calkins Period 6

            To start off with what my twenty-time project is… I want to cook foods from all around the world. Whether those foods originate from Greece, Japan, German and even Spain.  People say that cooking foods from all around the world is a very boisterous and out their idea. They mostly ask, why? It seems like so much work, too look up a bunch of random recipes. They also say that it seems very expensive. They say, what if you find a fish dish from Japan that you’re extremely interesting in cooking, and it adds up to be sixty to a hundred dollars to buy the ingredients. These people have very broad statements about the idea of cooking foods from all over the world.

In one of the articles, named “What Americans can Learn from Other Food Cultures”, demonstrates a Korean- American’s point of view about all of the cultures and foods displayed around the world. This man himself says that cultures do exist all around the world. The people who live in Korea say that “preferences are personally meaningful (meaning food), and can also be culturally meaningful.” They say that even though their food can migrate from Korea to the United States; where they currently migrated too, can have a completely different meaning to the people inhaling the food in a different country. That the people who make their own personal food for example America owns the name for Donuts and Cheeseburgers, that it’s not the same when someone basically “copies” their recipe and everything and cook it in a different country. People have meanings for their foods and some people abuse that definition. The article also states, “Most cultures don’t think about their cuisine in such monolithic terms… French, Mexican, Chinese, and Italian cuisines each comprise dozens of distinct regional foods.” I have also developed a superior knowledge of how civilians of their own country get very personal about their traditions and foods.       Too move on, I say that cooking all sorts of food whether those foods be desserts, little snacks, appetizers, or even full course meals will help be develop a broader and good sense of knowledge about all of the traditions and cultures that exist all throughout the world. I mean I think it’s crazy to think that thousands of miles maybe even millions of miles away, someone is doing something that I think is completely absurd and out there …when really it’s their everyday way of life in their ritual and lifetime. I say that learning about all of the millions of cultures that occur out there in the world is absolutely so unique and unordinary to do…

From reading this article I have developed many maybe inquiring questions about these traditions that I am hoping to find out later on. Some for example would be, has their traditions and foods developed over the centuries, in their opinion?